Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-12

them; you can trust them in the
bspds of God who owns
all the harvests, and the herds
and the iocks; but if you could pay the
premiums on policy aud neglect them,
it IS mean thing for you to 60 up to
heaven while they &C into the poorhouse.
You, at death, move into q mansion, and
they move into two rooms on the fourth
story Of tenement house in back
street. When they ere out 81 the elbows
ana knees, the thought of your splendid
robe in heaven will not keep them waTm.
The minister may peach splendid ser
mon over your rem0tns, aud the quartette
msy sing ike four angels in the organ
loft; but your deatn Will be 9 sWindle.
FoI had the means 20 provide for the
comfort Of your household when you left
It, and you wickedly neglected it. co."
says some one, 81 have more faith than
you; | believe when | q out of this
World, The Lord will provide for them"
60 20 BlackweI's Island, go through all
the poorhQuses OF the country, aud l will
show you how often God provides fer the
neglected children CT neGleCtful parents.
Thst is he provides for them through
puHic charity. As for myself, | would
rather have the Lord provide for my
family in private homo, and through
MY OWN INDUSTRY,
and paternsl, and conjugal faithfuiness.
Bu. says some man: 81 mean in the next
ten or twenty years TO make g great
fortune, and SO l shall leave my family
wnen | 60 ont Of this world, very COM
Portable" How do you know you are
gong to live ten or twenty years? II we
could look up the highWay OF the future,
W would see 1t crossed by pneumonias,
and pleursies, and consumptions, and
coiiiding ran trains, aud runaway horses,
snd breaking bridges, and funeral pro-
cessions. Are you so certain you
are going to live ten or
twenty years, you can warrant your
household any comfort after you go
away from them? Beside that, the
vast majority of men die poor.
Two-oniy-out Of hundred sue
coed in business. Are you very
certain YOU are going to be one OF the
two? Rich one day, poor the next. a
man in New York got s., coo, 600, and the
money turned his brain and he died in the
lunatic asylum. All his property WIS left
with the business firm, sHd they sWamped
it; and then the family OF the insane man
were left without a dollar. In eighteen
months the prosperity, the insanity, the in
/ solvency and the complete domestic ruin
/ Beside that, there are men who dis
solvent who are ins0lveut before they get
under TIE ground, or before their estate
| is settled up. How soon the auCtloneer's
mallet Csn knock the life out of al estate
4 man thinks the property is worth Sl5,-
/ coo; under forced sale it brings $1,000
! The business mSu takes advantage of the
crisis and he cOmpels the widow Of hi:
( deceased partner to sell out 30 him at
RUINOUS PRICE,
or lose all. The stock was supposed K
/ be very valuable, but it has been 81
"watered" that when the executor trie!
to sell It he is laughed out of Wall street
or the administrator is ordered by tht
surrogate to wind up the whole affair
The estate was supposed at the man'!
death 10 be worth $50, 900, but after TIT
Indebtedness had been met, and the bill!
of the doctor, and the undertaken, and thu
tCmbstOne-cutter have been paid, there
is nothing left. Th6t means the children
are TO come home from school and go K
work. That means the complete hardship
Of the wife, turned cut with nothing Blu
needle to fight the great battle of th
world. Tear down the lambrequins, clos
the piano, rip up the Administer, sell on
the wardrobe, and let the mother take
child in each hand and trudge out int,
the desert of the world. life insurGnC
would have hindered all that.
"But," says some one, 81 am g msn O
small means, end can't afford to pay tn
Premium That is sometimes Lawful
and genuine excuse, and ther
IS no answer TO 1t; but in nine cases on
ten when man says that, he smokes u
IN cigars, and drinks down in wine, an
expends in Injuries enough money t
have psld the premium on life insuranC
: policy which would have kept his tamil
from beggary when he is dead. A ma
ought TO put himself down on the strict
est economy until he can meet this Chris
tisn necessity. You have no right to th
Injuries Of life uutil you have made sue
l provisions. admire what was said by Rev
Dr.. Guthrie, the greet Scottish presct
er. A few years before his death b
stood in q public meeting and declared
= "When | came tc Edinburgh, the peOpI
sometimes laughed at my blue stockings
j and al ny cotton umbrella, and they sal
looked like a common pIoughman, an
e they derided me because l lived in
house fer which paid thirty five pound
l REM q year, and oftentimes ! wslke
e when l would have been very glad to hay
4 CAB; bur, gentlemen, l did Ill of III:
because l wanted TO
D PAY THE PREMIUM
on life insurance that would keep n
. family comfortable If l should die" Tn:
l take TO be the right expression OF s
j, honest, intelligent, Christian msn.
Tho If ~ ,CauU npOn
3 on this important subject accounts fl
-? much OF the crime and the psuperism
e this day. Who are these children swee
: ing the crossings with broken broom eli
e begging Of you penny as you 60 by
e Who are these lost souls gliding und
I the gaslight, in thin shawls? All, The
\ are the victims of want; in many of :!
y cases the forecast of parents and Crane
5 parents might have prohibited it. &c
e only knows how they have struggled to {
Y right. They prayed until the tears fro
e on their cheeks, they sewed on the sal
q until the breaking OF day; but th'
e could 70. get enough mon
=, TO pay the rent; they could n
e get enough money to decent
l. c.othe themselves; and one day in til
= Wretched home, the angel of purity al
'e the srStl of crime fought q greet fg
.e between the empty bread-tray and L
: freless hearth, and the black wing
n angel shrieked: "Aha. l have won t
l. day. Says some man: ~ believe WI
is you say; it is right aud Christian, srd
10 mesn sometime 10 attend 10 this matter
e. NV friend, you ere going to lose the CO!
ie tort Of your household in the same w
= the sinner loses heaven, by procrastin
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